APRU Multi-Hazard Symposium in Bangkok
Four DASL members attended the 17th APRU Multi-Hazard Symposium at the end of November in Bangkok, Thailand. The topic of the conference was “Innovation Towards Sustainable Growth and Disaster Risk Reduction.”
Introducing our new PhD Students
We are excited to welcome two new PhD students to our research group. Sonali Manimaran is interested in exploring the impacts of sea level rise on migration in Southeast Asia. Sonali is a graduate of the Asian School of the Environment, where she studied geoscience, ecology and environmental economics. While at ASE, she participated in…
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DASL at the Virtual Disaster Dash 2021!
The Disaster Analytics Lab for Society (DASL) presented at the recently concluded Natural Hazards Workshop and Researcher’s Meeting. In conjunction with the conference, the lab participated in Disaster Dash, a 5km run held in support of the Bill Anderson Fund. The fund’s mission is to expand the number of professionals from historically underrepresented groups in…
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DASL at Understanding Risk 2020
The Disaster Analytics Lab for Society is involved in several exciting sessions at this year’s Understanding Risk 2020 forum. See details below and register for the event (it’s free!). Many exciting sessions. Forming radical collaborations to address climate and disaster risk: The Understanding Risk Field Lab https://www.ur2020.org/agenda/session/440102 Thursday 3 Dec 3-3:55 UTC (11-11:55 SG time)…
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What might have been: counterfactual thinking in risk analysis
RF Yolanda Lin was recently invited to contribute to the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Younger Members Committee (YMC) blog. This is a repost of that piece, and you can find the original blog post here. Thank you to Ezra Jampole and the YMC for the invitation and editing assistance. After an earthquake, earthquake engineers…
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After the UR Field Lab: DASL visits the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok)
The UR Field Lab 2019, which took place in June 2019, was a unique platform and event that brought together people of different expertise to share and co-develop projects on the theme of urban flooding. This collaborative experience widened DASL’s network tremendously, and we have since maintained contact with many of the participants, including those…
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Our new website is live!
Welcome to the new site for the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab (DASL) in NTU! We’ll be using this as a space to share our work — including publications, blog posts, linking to datasets, and more. Look forward to more posts to come!
Converging disaster researchers in the Asia-Pacific Region
Monday morning, July 15, 2019, the first full day of the 44th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop: not quite knowing what to expect, we (Sabine Loos and Yolanda Lin) were skeptical about the first item on the agenda for the day. It looked as though a full hour and a half was blocked…
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Darwin’s account of the 1835 earthquake in Concepción, Chile
On Feb 20th 1835, a large earthquake (estimated M8.1-8.2) shook the cities of Concepción and Talcuahano in Chile, and generated a large tsunami which battered the Chilean coastline. On that day, Charles Darwin was on shore near Valdivia, 200 miles south of Concepción. His journal presents a fascinating account of the earthquake and its aftermath. I…
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Remaining Earthquake Risk of Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Updated maps with Google Earth Engine
In a previous post I shared some of my research on the remaining earthquake risk of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The main conclusion was that the earthquake which occurred in 2010 can not reasonably be assumed to be followed by a long period of earthquake tranquility. Geological and paleoseismic evidence suggests that the expected “Port-au-Prince earthquake,” (as opposed to the…
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